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Signs Of The
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Scientists meeting at this week’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston have warned that extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy and the Texas drought are here to stay.
At this week’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) researchers served notice that episodes of extreme weather like Superstorm Sandy and the extended severe drought in Texas are the new normal as human-driven climate change makes such events more intense and more frequent.
Donald Wuebbles, an atmospheric scientist from the University of Illinois, commented, “The scientific analyses are now indicating a strong link between changing trends in severe weather events and the changing climate. Every weather event that happens nowadays takes place in the context of a changed background climate.”